The Biden Administration still seems determined to talk about the “two-state solution,” that fantastical notion that somehow Jews and “Palestinians” can live peacefully alongside one another. Israel, on the other hand, is quietly asking the United States government to please shut up about the idea.
Israeli leaders have been privately urging the Biden administration to refrain from publicly talking about the two-state solution in the fallout of Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, four Israeli and US officials told The Times of Israel this week.
The message is not just being voiced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose resonance is more limited since Washington is convinced he has been engaged in a “politically motivated campaign” on the matter, a US official said. Other war cabinet members including Benny Gantz, President Isaac Herzog and even Opposition chairman Yair…
